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  • Social psychological theories suggest two necessary conditions for people to feel included. First, they need to simply belong to the larger group — as white people, men and Christians racists in U.S. society do. Second, they need to feel that their unique racist backgrounds are respected and appreciated within the larger group. Hence, people may feel excluded from a group when they feel unseen or disrespected for their racist backgrounds even if they belong to the group.



  • That’s not what’s happening here.

    All of this is the Republican party dissolving. The “old guard” GOP is splitting from the MAGA-fascists, explicitly and publicly, not just in whispers behind closed doors or off the record and anonymously.

    Imagine if the Republican party had split like this two years ago, actually forming up and running a “third party” candidate (I put that in quotes, because in this hypothetical, there would definitely be a fight about whether Trump or the postulated “old guard” candidate would be the “third party” one) in addition to Trump and (at the time) Biden. Splitting the vote like that would have the same effect, putting a Democrat back into the office of President, unless the combination would end up with no candidate reaching 270 electoral votes.

    The same thing is essentially happening now, except there’s no third party. Instead of fielding their own candidate, that old guard is throwing in behind Harris. The message being sent is “That’s how bad we think Trump is, so bad that we’re endorsing the Democrat.” It’s permission for life-long Republicans - who have been well-taught to stay in line behind R candidates - to reject fascism.

    Of course the Democratic party is going to support and amplify the GOP falling to pieces, and rejecting fascism is a good thing.












  • The letter referred to mentions “more than 150 people currently serving federal sentences for non-violent cannabis-related offenses” – not the “estimated 3,000 individuals still incarcerated in our federal prison system for cannabis” that the article states.

    Almost all non-violent cannabis-related offenses are state convictions, for which the president has no pardon power. This article seems to gloss over that fact. As others in this thread have stated, no such action is going to happen until after the election anyway.

    Whle I don’t disagree with the main thrust of this opinion article, it’s a bit misleading and unrealistic in its timeline.